The group began with questions:
(1) p. 206: Is Foucault making a distinction between relays/multiples of power as opposed to productive power/powers that serve a specific function?
(2) p. 212: What is the second "function" of sequestration that Foucault mentions?
(3) p. 214: Double system of prevention of heterosexuality and prohibition of homosexuality? (4) p. 206-207: What is meant by hyper-power?
Discussion...
On Hyper-power:
—Intensification of power on bodies
—Does hyper-power mean more power?
—Social bodies: power is predicated on membership; mechanical bodies: on productive function; dynastic: ?
—Is the prison the site of hyper-power? Site of multiplication (places where mechanisms of power, normalization, the examination, occur and then become diffuse through the social body).
—State structure is a relay-multiplier of power "within a society in which the State structure remains the conditions for the functioning of these institutions" (209)?
On "Mono-functional institutions" (p. 212):
—Institutions appear to be mono-functional, but that is not the case.
—Second function is to fabricate the social—"fabricate something that is both prohibition and norm, and that has to become reality: they are institutions of normalization" (214-215).
—At first sight not implied in the institutional function itself
—Establishes whole set of norms that exceed institution's stated/explicit functions.
—Function in Foucault vs. Althusser/Marx
Prevention of heterosexuality vs. prohibition of homosexuality (p. 213-214):
—Structure of a sex-segregated school system means that heterosexuality as a practice is prevented (cannot be exercised); it just is prevented but not on some moral ground; just a structural feature.
—Homosexuality needs to be prohibited
—Heterosexuality is the external norm that is diffused; homosexuality is internal
—p. 214: is apparatus in footnote apparatus or dispositif in French translation.
New type of discursivity (p. 215)
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